Autograph Collection.- Politics Military, Religion, Business, Legal world and Sports 18th-20th century

Wide collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, 18th-20th century, including:

Politics, Civil Service and Diplomacy: a large assortment of letters, engravings, notes and clipped signatures etc of the c.18th, c,19th and c.20th, including:

Richard Cobden (1804 – 1865, Radical), Sir Thomas Mackenzie (1853-1930, Prime Minister of New Zealand & High Commissioner in London); George William Erskine (1853-1919); Sir Horace Rumbold (1829-1913, diplomat); Miles Wedderburn Lampson (1880-1964, diplomat); James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838-1922, academic, jurist, historian, diplomat); Francis Richard John Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford (1824-1893, civil servant); Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton (1809-1874, Poor Law Commissioner); Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster (1866-1936, Governor-General of Australia); Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, (1881-1957, diplomat); John Xavier Merriman (1841-1926 Prime Minister of Cape Colony from 1908 to 1910); Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-1891, Governor of Hong Kong and Mauritius); etc.

Robert Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936, politician, writer, journalist & adventurer); George Hampden Whalley, later George Hampden White (1851–1917, MP & bankrupt); W.H. Smith II (retailer and politician, 1825-1891, small qty + engraving); Sir Julian Goldsmid (1838-1896); Sir Ian Macpherson (1880-1937); Sir Wilfrid Lawson (1829-1906); Edward Stanhope (1840- 1893); Lord George Hamilton (1845-1927); Janet ‘Jennie’ Lee (1904-1988, photo only); Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover (1802-1867); Dudley Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby (1831-1900), Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880-1959); Arthur Henderson (1863-1935, politician and Nobel Prize laureate); James Maxton (1885-1946); Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, (1894-1967); Thomas Power TP O'Connor (1848-1929);

Military & Naval: a good assemblage of letters, notes, clipped signatures, etc from the c.18th, c.19th and c.20th including:

Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850-1916); Field Marshal John French, (1852-1925); Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, (1871-1936); Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell and Viceroy of India, 1883-1950);

Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor (1863-1946 signed photograph); Admiral Henry John Rous (1795-1877); Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, (1872-1949); Admiral Sir Randolph Frank Ollive Foote (1853-1931); Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Madden (1862-1935); Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford (1846-1919); Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan (1810-1890); Sir George Robertson Turner, Surgeon Rear-Admiral (1855 -1941); Admiral Richard Bowles Farquhar (1859-1948); Lieutenant Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson (1880-1954); Admiral Sir James Startin (1855–1948)

Field Marshal Frederick Roberts (1832-1914 small qty); Field Marshal Robert Napier (1810- 1890); Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, (1833-1913); Field Marshal Philip Chetwode (1869 – 6 July 1950); Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson (1860-1933); Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1838-1919); Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922); Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969); Field Marshal Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1821-1903);

General Sir William John Codrington (1804-1884); Major-General Lionel Charles Dunsterville (1865-1946); Major-General Sir William Julius Gascoigne (1844-1926); Major-General Sir Lee Stack (1868-1924); General Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861); General Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker, (1844-1910); General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay (1887-1965); Major-General Sir Maurice Holt (1862-1954); General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny (1840-1914); Brigadier-General James Dalrymple-Hay (1858–1924); Major-General Sir John Duncan (1872 - 1948); Major-General Sir Arthur Robert Ford Dorward (1848 -1934); Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Lloyd (1853-1926); Major-General Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville, (1870-); Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate MP (1849-1940); Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill (1869-1935, Lieutenant-Colonel in command 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment); Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, (1910-2004) Surgeon-General William Wallace Kenny (1854 – 1929); John Taylor-Smith (1860 – 28 March 1938, Chaplain-General to the Forces );

The Law and Lawyers: an assortment of letters, notes, signed photographs and clipped signatures etc, etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th etc, including: Sir Henry Keating (1804-1888, Solicitor General); Sir Maziere Brady (1796-1871, Lord Chancellor); John Scott, Lord Eldon (1751-1838, Lord Chancellor); Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, (1733-1805, Lord Chancellor), Robert Monsey, Lord Cranworth (1790-1868, Lord Chancellor); Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Lord St Leonards (1781- 1875, Lord Chancellor); Thomas Denman, Lord Denman (1779-1854, Lord Chief Justice); Frederic Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford (1794-1878, Lord Chancellor – ALS letter + engraved portraits); Archibald Colquhoun (1756-1820, Lord Advocate); Sir Edward Hall Alderson (1787-1857, Baron of the Exchequer); Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, (1869-1956, barrister & Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office); Sir Thomas Henry (1807–1876, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate); Sir John Silvester (1745- 1822, Common Serjeant of London & Recorder of London – engraving & signature); Sir James Stephen (1789-1859, lawyer, reformer, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies); John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson (1844- 1932, Lord of Appeal); James Grant (1743-1835, advocate & author); Peter Halkerston (d. 1833?, lawyer & writer); Sir William Robert Grove (1811-1896, & physical scientist);

George Cavendish-Bentinck (1821-1891, Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces); Henry Glassford Bell (1803-1874, lawyer, poet and historian); Thomas Hutchinson Tristram (1825-1912, lawyer); John Frederic(k) Foster (1795–1858, barrister); Rupert Kettle (1817-1894, lawyer); Charles Henry Edward Carmichael (1842-1895, lawyer & writer); Henry Richmond Droop (1832-1884 barrister and inventor of the Droop quota); Edmond Beales (1803–1881 radical and judge); John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, (1751-1828, judge, diplomat, politician and poet); Archibald Kennedy, 4th Marquess of Ailsa (1872-1943, barrister and soldier); George Denman (1819- 1896, barrister, High Court judge and politician); Sir Frederick Pollock (1845- 1937, jurist); Sir Charles Wetherell (1770-1846, lawyer and politician): Charles Shaw (1823-1893, Under-Treasurer of the Middle Temple and writer – letter to Sir Thomas Erskine-May (1815-1886, clerk of the House of Commins); Robert Gillespie (1835-1906, Stipendiary magistrate); etc, etc (qty)

The Church & Religion: an assortment of letters, notes and autographs etc from the c19th and c20th including:

Archbishops: Canterbury (John Sumner, 1780-1862, Archibald Tate, 1811-1882, Cosmo Lang, 1864-1945, Geoffrey Fisher 1887-1972); York (Thomas Musgrave, 1788-1860, William Maclagan, 1826-1910); Sydney (William Saumarez Smith, 1836-1909); Archbishop of Thebes (1895);

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